Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.